The Value of Integrating Visual Arts: Evaluating the Benefits of Hospital Room Artwork on Inpatient Wellbeing
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Conditions studied: Cancer
In brief
The Value of Integrating Visual Arts (VIVA): Evaluating the Benefits of Hospital Room Artwork on Inpatient Wellbeing will use a large randomized controlled trial design to investigate how the inclusion of visual arts in the hospital rooms of cancer patients benefits their quality-of-life during treatment. This 18-month research study will provide hospitals with evidence of the therapeutic value of the visual arts as measured by patients' perceptions of anxiety, pain ratings, use of pain medications, need for nurses, and length of stay. Data also will be collected on patients' evaluation of hospital rooms, specifically on décor including artwork, so as to correlate patient wellbeing with the presence of artwork. Ultimately, this project aims to increase support of and appreciation for the arts from a major consumer-namely, healthcare providers-by justifying the value of integrating local visual art into inpatient rooms and providing patients with aesthetic choice during their stay.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02357160
- Run by
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
- People needed
- 184
- Starts
- 2014-11-01
- Expected to finish
- 2016-08-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2016-09-13
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patients who are admitted to the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute (7th floor) for treatments including oncology, bone marrow transplant, and hematology. Patients will be 18 years or older
You may not qualify if…
- Patients whose treatments do not include oncology, bone marrow transplant, and hematology; who are not hospitalized on the 7th floor of the Cancer Institute; and who are not 18 years or older.
Where it is running
- Penn State Hershey Medical Center — Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
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